“I know she’s just a peanut. And Damien,” he paused and gave me his ear, “we did good.”
His eyes glistened, and he bent over kissing both the baby and me. I knew I had totally just melted his heart. “Thanks, that means everything to me.”
Maybe he wasn’t her biological father, but he was the father in every other sense of the word.
“So, sweets, don’t you think we should give her a name?”
“I suppose that would be a good idea.” I looked down at my baby knowing exactly the name I wanted to give her. “I have an idea.”
“What’s that, babe?”
“How about if we name her Luciana Suzanne Blue and call her Lucy. This way she would be named after your mom and my mom.”
“Really, you want to name her after my mom?” I looked up at him, and his eyes had that same glossy look to them, as if tears were going to spill over at any moment.
“Yes.”
He looked at our baby and cooed to her. “Hi, Lucy, do you like your name?”
Of course, she didn’t say anything she was sound asleep in my arms. “I think she’ll love her name just as much as she’s going to love her daddy.”
“You make me so happy. Despite Wes, today has been one of the happiest days of my life.” He leaned over and kissed me gently on the lips. “As soon as we can have sex, I’m planting another baby inside you. I want to have as many babies as we can.”
My eyes bugged out of my head. Why was he talking about having another baby when I just gave birth? “We’ll see.”
“Yes, we will.” He smirked at me, and I knew he would win this argument.
Lucy started fussing as the nurse came back into our suite. Lucy kept making a motion with her mouth. I looked at Damien. “I think she’s hungry.”
I lifted my gown exposing my breast. I’ve heard a lot about breastfeeding and about how difficult it can be, but she just latched right on, as if she’d been doing it for a while.
Damien just stood there and stared at us. “I think that’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.”
About a half hour later, a knock sounded and the door slightly opened. “Can we come in?” It was Luciana and Thomas. I covered myself with the blanket so not to expose myself. They walked in, and then the entire family trailed behind them.
Damien greeted everyone and they all took turns holding the baby. His mother started to cry. “I can’t believe you named the baby after me, I’m so honored.”
She was holding our baby and seemed to be in her prime. Damien and Justice had stepped out of the room to talk. No doubt, he was filling him in on the rest of what Wes had done to me. I knew if he told him to keep it in the strictest of confidence, he would.
They came back into the room and Damien went and picked up Lucy from his mother. He walked over to me while he cooed at her and called her sweet names. He was so loving.
Bee burst through the doors. “I was just able to go on break. I couldn’t get here quick enough. Damien, hand that baby over to me.”
He gathered her into his arms tightly not showing any sign of giving her over to Bee. I cleared my throat. He looked down at me, and I shook my head.
“What?”
“I think you need to let Bee have a turn, honey.”
“But I don’t want her to have a turn, she’s mine.” He glared at me. So I glared back. Then we both started laughing.
“You better hand that baby over, Damien. I know where you sleep,” Bee said while placing her hands on her hips and giving him her best you better not mess with me look.
I just cracked up some more. Damien finally relinquished our daughter to her and came over to me. He bent down and started whispering in my ear. “You’ll never have to worry about Wes again, baby.”
“Thank you.” I felt my hairs stand on the back of my neck just thinking about all I’d been through with that poor excuse for a human being.
“Justice and his boys are on it. As soon as we’re out of here, we are getting a restraining order. That’s for when and if he gets out of jail. I hope you don’t mind, but I told him about the rape.” He looked troubled. It was a topic that neither one of us liked to bring up.
“You make me feel so safe, Damien.”
And he did.
Really safe.
“That’s because you are safe.” And I saw in his eyes that he truly meant every word.
“When Justice pulled him up on the computer, he had several charges over the last two years for various crimes.”
“Wow, really? He’s the devil.”
Bee walked over to us breaking us from our conversation. “You two did good. She is absolutely perfect. And after seeing your baby pictures, Syd, I think she looks just like you.” She winked at me as we shared our moment.